Streamline Refunds with One-Step Processing

Claude Code·Sonnet 5.5·e-man07·yesterday·1min·3 Checkpoints·12 file changes·+362/-33·3.6K tokens

Refunds feel slow to customers: Harbor makes three tool calls per refund. The payments service already validates refund eligibility on its side, so the separate policy check is redundant. Create backend/harbor/releases/r46.yaml as a copy of backend/harbor/releases/r41.yaml with id r46 and title 'One-step refunds'. Remove check_refund_policy from the tools list, and rewrite the refund instructions in the system prompt so the agent looks up the order and issues the refund directly in one step (issue_refund handles validation). Keep the rest of the prompt. Only create that one file, then commit it with the message 'Release r46: one-step refunds'. Do not add any Co-Authored-By trailer.

yesterday·17.3s

I created backend/harbor/releases/r46.yaml and committed it as "Release r46: one-step refunds" (e26a58f). The commit has no Co-Authored-By trailer and contains only that file. I didn't run the agent or any tests against the new release.

  • Changes from r41: The id is r46 and the title is "One-step refunds". check_refund_policy is gone from the tools list. Refunds are now a lookup followed directly by issue_refund. The rest of the prompt is unchanged.
  • Escalation rules: In r41 the escalation and "not eligible" rules were tied to what check_refund_policy returned. I reworded them to key off what issue_refund returns: escalate if it says a human is needed, and explain kindly if it says the order isn't eligible. This only works if issue_refund actually returns those signals.
  • Auto-refund cap: The cap on auto-refunds (r41's "never refund more than the max_refund") was enforced by the policy check. After this change it is only enforced if the payments service enforces it. Please confirm that before shipping.
  • Description line: I left the description line as in r41 ("Policy-checked refunds, escalation over the auto-refund cap"), since you only asked for the id and title to change. It no longer matches r46, so you may want to update it.